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.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
-.. Copyright (c) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+.. Copyright (c) 2017-2021 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
.. _architecture:
-Clamp in ONAP Architecture
---------------------------
+Policy/Clamp in ONAP Architecture
+---------------------------------
-CLAMP is a platform for designing and managing control loops. It is used to visualize
-a control loop, configure it with specific parameters for a particular network
+CLAMP platform has been integrated into the Policy framework project, starting as a POC during
+Honolulu release and as a official feature with Istanbul release. So CLAMP must be seen now
+as a function provided by the Policy Framework project.
+
+CLAMP is a function for designing and managing control loops and a UI to manage Policies.
+ It is used to visualize a control loop, configure it with specific parameters for a particular network
service, then deploying and undeploying it. Once deployed, the user can also
update the loop with new parameters during runtime, as well as suspending and
restarting it.
-It interacts with other systems to deploy and execute the control loop. For
-example, it extracts the control loop blueprint and Policy Model(Model Driven Control Loop)
-from CSAR distributed by SDC/DCAE-DS.
-It requests from DCAE the instantiation of microservices
-to manage the control loop flow. Furthermore, it creates and updates multiple
-policies (for DCAE mS configuration and actual Control Operations) in the Policy Engine
+Starting with Istanbul release, CLAMP GUI can also be used to create/read/update/delete/list policies
+outside of a control loop, and therefore CLAMP is also the front-end for Policies management in ONAP.
+
+CLAMP interacts with other systems to deploy and execute the control loop. For
+example, it extracts the control loop blueprint from CSAR distributed by SDC.
+CLAMP also calls the internal Policy framework API to get the Policy Models(Model Driven Control Loop)
+It requests from DCAE the instantiation of microservices.
+to manage the control loop flow. Furthermore, it creates and updates multiple
+policies (for DCAE mS configuration and actual Control Operations) in the Policy Engine
that define the closed loop flow.
|clamp-flow|
-The ONAP CLAMP platform abstracts the details of these systems under the concept
+The ONAP CLAMP function abstracts the details of these systems under the concept
of a control loop model. The design of a control loop and its management is
represented by a workflow in which all relevant system interactions take
place. This is essential for a self-service model of creating and managing
control loops, where no low-level user interaction with other components is
required.
-CLAMP also allows to visualize control loop metrics through a dashboard, in order
-to help operations understand how and when a control loop is triggered and takes action.
-
-|dashboard-flow|
-
At a higher level, CLAMP is about supporting and managing the broad operational
life cycle of VNFs/VMs and ultimately ONAP components itself. It will offer the
ability to design, test, deploy and update control loop automation - both closed
@@ -43,5 +45,4 @@ operational costs compared to traditional methods.
|closed-loop|
.. |clamp-flow| image:: images/architecture/distdepl.png
-.. |dashboard-flow| image:: images/architecture/monitoring.png
.. |closed-loop| image:: images/architecture/ONAP-closedloop.png